Wild Walk 🥾
   When I started out on my walk today, the actual air temperature was around 19°C to 22°C, but the “feels-like” temperature (or wind chill) made it feel closer to 16°C to 18°C due to the breezy conditions.
   I made my way to the recreation ground and began to walk around the outskirts of the sports field.
    I noticed a Meadow Brown butterfly settled on some purple comfrey flowers and I took a quick photograph. The comfrey plants were surrounded by many white field bindweed flowers.

  There was a single rook pecking at the grass on the playing field. I continued along my way to the cemetery road entrance, where I noticed a beautiful Red Admiral butterfly settled on a patch of nettles. I reached for my mobile phone camera to take a picture but sadly the butterfly quickly flew away.
   Several corvids and wood pigeons were scattered around on the grass verges in the cemetery when I walked through.
   I entered the field at the top end of the cemetery, which appeared to be empty of birdlife.
   Many corvids were settled and feeding around the young trees planted by the farmer in the next field. This is planned to become a natural wood in a few years’ time.

On my way to the cemetery exit I noticed quite a few small Comma butterflies flying around and settled on some lavender plants in full flower.
   As I walked along the cemetery road towards the leisure centre, I noticed the privet hedges were covered in large white bindweed flowers and some wild dog roses.
   A single gull and several feral pigeons were perched on the leisure centre rooftop.
   A sparrow dived for cover into the hawthorn hedge adjoining the care home and two more sparrows were settled on the top of a garden fence.
Today I walked for 2.43 miles in 53 minutes.
Google Fit awarded me 24 heart points.

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